Airtel Launches SmartTRYBE Junior e- Learning Product, SIM Card
AIRTEL Nigeria has taken another giant
step in reinventing Nigeria’s educational
tools in the ICT era with the launch of
SmartTRYBE junior.
SmartTRYBE junior is a revolutionary
learning product that opens students to a
whole new world of mobile learning
whilst staying in touch with their
parents.
The e-learning product was launched in
partnership with Evans Publishers
Limited and MobiTutor.
Segun Aderinokun, head of Youth
Segment at Airtel Nigeria, said that
SmartTRYBE junior comes with
interactive NERDC approved learning
electronic subjects and courses designed
for pupils to excel.
He said, ‘SmartTRYBE junior also comes
with additional features that always
keeps parents connected with the child.
It had affordable features like free calls
and SMS to mum and dad from kid’s
line; 10% bonus of airtime transferred
to kid\’s line when the parent recharge
and 100% bonus on data to browse
educational sites and much more\’.
Aderinokun Added that with the
SmartTRYBE Junior SIM, a child receives
10% of all parent’s recharge.
‘In other words, SmartTRYBE kids can
stay in touch with parents; friends and
family get in touch with unlimited calls
and text messages everyday for 30days;
an lots more benefits’, he explained.
He added that the solution will further
make education interesting to students
while enabling teachers to carry out
their functions in classrooms with ease.
He noted that Airtel’s decision to partner
with Evans Publishers Limited was based
on the Compay’s pedigree in the
development of high quality educational
and curriculum based as well as leisure
books.
’Evans Pushers are known for their
commitment to lifting the standard of
education, by developing excellent books
and inspiring teachers, who will impart
quality education to the pupils which is
in.line with Airtel\’s drive in
ddeveloping SmartTRYBE, \’ he said.
Speaking to Nigeria
CommunicationsWeek, Mr. Barry Taylor,
MD/CEO, MobiTutor, described Airtel as
pacesetters as regards reinventing
teaching and learning apparatus in the
country.
He said that MobiTutor is an advanced
platform of services targetted at moving
the education sector forward into the
ICT age.
He said that SmartTRYBE junior reduces
the student’s and teacher’s dependance
on physical textbooks as the system will
encourage the establishment of
knowledge based economies through the
creation of a computer literate and
technology comfortable generation.
According to him, it also has secondary
impact on independant study, home
schooling, distance learning, nomadic
education and not least of all
environmental impacts on reduced
consumption of paper products.
The product launch was graced by
partners from Airtel, Evans, MobiTutor
and students from different schools.
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